Gorilla Grodd comes to Central City in “Grodd Lives.”
Evil talking gorillas with psionic powers rule.
Here’s our review of The Flash…
ThisThe Flashreview contains spoilers.
I am Grodd…Fear me.
Well,The Flashdid it.
They did the impossible.
They pulled off Gorilla Grodd on a TV budget.
And it was pretty good.
Thats right, Grodd Lives is pretty good.
But it doesnt scale the heights (get it?
Yknow, like King Kong?
Ill…ummm…Ill get my coat) of some of this seasons other highlights.
Because there was just a giant evil gorilla on my TV.
That honor goes to Candice Patton as Iris West.
Man of Steel touched on it, refreshingly making Lois Lane not a total moron.
Now, since its already been demonstrated that Iris isnt stupid, you might understand why shes pissed off.
Now that we know she knows, watching Barry lie to her face was kind of irritating.
Thats kind of great.
I do feel they cheated us a little bit, though.
Part of that comes from my suspicion that there should be more fallout from Barry coming clean to Iris.
Also, could Barry confronting Iris about her feelings for him have possibly come at a more inappropriate moment?
Cmon, show…youre better than this.
That was someSmallvillenonsense right there.
Okay, anyway, enough about all that.
Lets talk about Grodd.
The Flashdid Grodd on a TV budget as well as could be expected.
Mostly keeping Grodd in the shadows during the sewer scenes helped, too.
For the most part, though, it didnt look like they had anything to hide.
The CGI Grodd looked pretty good, especially when we were mostly dealing with his face.
Weve come a long way from half-assed shadow Darkseid on Smallville, for example.
It was neat that Grodd thinks in Clancy Browns voice, too.
And its also nice that they didnt just wrap things up with Grodd this episode.
Will he show up again before the season ends?
I wouldnt count on it.
I suspect this was a big headache for the special effects team.
But I wouldnt count this gorilla out, either.
Theres always season two.
Flash Facts!
Thats One Awesome Gorilla!
okay, Eddie theorists.
There are two schools of thought: Eddie is going to be a supervillain…or he isnt.
Do you buy Eobards spiel about Eddie amounting to nothing?
Or is he just trying to motivate him so that Eddie becomes all he can be?
(sorry, I was channeling Cisco there for a minute)
Mike Fact!
The second comic book I ever owned wasThe Flash#336…featuring Grodd on the cover.
I have every issue since then (and a bunch before it, too!).
Rating:
3.5 out of 5
